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11-19-2010, 06:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | Would You Like to Know When You Die?
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Just curious:
If you were given the opportunity to know the exact date of your eventual death (without having the power to change it), would you want to know?
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11-19-2010, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | | Voted immortal.
If it was tomorrow then i wouldn't want to know. If it was 33 years from now then...eh...I would be ok with that.
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11-19-2010, 09:10 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Denver, CO. | | | You didn't have a don't care option so i voted immortal.
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11-20-2010, 05:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | Well, it would certainly help with the financial planning. I could spend all my money and rack up a huge credit card debt right before the end. And why not have a big "going away" party? Paid for with credit, of course. I vote yes. |
11-20-2010, 05:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Belgium | | | I voted yes.
I think this would give more importance to my life ; it would maybe give me the little thing I need to go on.
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11-20-2010, 05:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Outside Boston | | An friend of mine knew the exact date and time he would die.
A judge told him.   
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11-20-2010, 09:28 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Lake Charles, La. | | | I'd rather have it come as a surprise to me.
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11-20-2010, 10:21 AM
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You want to hear my plan. Lemmy is immortal, right? (At least it seems so  ) I'm gonna' steal one of his Ricks, cos that's where all his super powers are. Endless HP. |
11-20-2010, 12:30 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Nazium Well, it would certainly help with the financial planning. I could spend all my money and rack up a huge credit card debt right before the end. And why not have a big "going away" party? Paid for with credit, of course. I vote yes. | First thing that came to my mind too. I'd really feel bummed about dedicating so much time to debt repayment, retirement planning, flossing, etc.
I don't think I'd want to know though, it'd take the "fun" out of death.
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11-20-2010, 01:04 PM
|  | Looking for Opportunities to Create Harmony | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | | | I voted yes. I dont know if I'd want to know the exact date, but maybe at what age.
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11-20-2010, 01:09 PM
| | | | I vote yes if it was in a few years.
But if it was 40 years from today then I don't want to know. I already know folks die of old age. Don't tell me the day I die is that far away, it will take the fun out of knowing.
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11-20-2010, 01:12 PM
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Head Tinkerer, The Flufflab | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: California | | | Voted yes. I could take up all sorts of dangerous but enjoyable activities, then rack up a huge CC bill for the final party, but take out massive amounts of life insurance a couple of months before.
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11-20-2010, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Istanbul | | | If it is soon,I'd like to know so that I could say **** off to everything and live a little bit at least.
If it's not soon,I don't want to know.I'll keep building my life up.
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11-20-2010, 03:12 PM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | | No. I think it would take all the joy out of life. All I'd be doing is sitting there counting the seconds.
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11-20-2010, 03:16 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | I'm a chronic procrastinator when I have a specific due date for anything. If I knew when I was gonna die, I'd keep putting off doing anything with my life because I still had time . So no, I would hate to know when I'd go.
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11-20-2010, 04:09 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | It wouldn't matter. The only person who could know with any certainty when I am going to die, is some kind of murderer. And if they tipped their hand to me, I'd turn them in to the police or otherwise defend myself. On the other hand if somebody promised me a long life, I could still die in an accident. I already know as much as anybody else about my projected lifespan, simply based on probabilities. |
11-20-2010, 04:53 PM
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I voted yes because I wish to be informed of my demise. |
11-20-2010, 05:02 PM
|  | M E T S ... Mets, Mets, Mets! | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NC. Residential Tourist | | I, like Dick Clark, am immortal.
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11-20-2010, 05:08 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Of course no. The whole value of life lies in this ignorance of your future. |
11-20-2010, 05:14 PM
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Head Tinkerer, The Flufflab | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fdeck It wouldn't matter. The only person who could know with any certainty when I am going to die, is some kind of murderer. And if they tipped their hand to me, I'd turn them in to the police or otherwise defend myself. On the other hand if somebody promised me a long life, I could still die in an accident. I already know as much as anybody else about my projected lifespan, simply based on probabilities. | I'm guessing that the question was intended to be interpreted as if the universe were deterministic and the future predictable. (i.e. it's just a movie...) Given that (hopefully counterfactual) premise, would you rather know or be ignorant? Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazz Ad Of course no. The whole value of life lies in this ignorance of your future. | Maybe - though maybe it could be also considered to be in what you create and leave behind.
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